Graham McNicoll

OpenAI bought Statsig for $1.1B in stock. Before that, Datadog swallowed Eppo. For a CTO, this is more than "industry news." It calls into question your whole tooling infrastructure. We've all seen this movie before. When you integrate a proprietary vendor into your core product, you buy more than a tool. You inherit their exit strategy. Experimentation and feature flagging platforms carry high switching costs. You wire SDKs into your stack, have all your data there, and you've trained your team how to use it. Then comes the acquisition. Roadmaps change, priorities change. The team that built your tool leaves. Your experimentation program becomes collateral damage. We built GrowthBook to help prevent this vendor lock-in. We were the first to be warehouse-native and open source for this exact reason. If the vendor goes away, your SQL, logic, and data stay in your warehouse. You own your data; the vendor is just the interface. Would you rather own your data or hope your vendor's new parent company still cares about your priorities? Check out how we handle data ownership at GrowthBook.io or drop a comment below if you've been burned by a vendor acquisition—I’d love to hear your story.

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